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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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